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The Environmental Protection Agency announces a new rule on mercury emissions from coal-fire power plants that will phase in reductions over 20 years. The plan delays deep cuts in mercury pollution for about 10 years.

NASA has not launched a space shuttle since the Columbia disaster a year and a half ago. The agency is preparing to return to space next spring, when the 20-year-old shuttle Discovery is slated to launch a Mercury probe. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

A discovery of at least 2 billion barrels of oil in the western part of the state has led to an oil boom. That means a low unemployment rate of 3.5 percent, but residents question the cost. "To expect a county of 20,000 people to overnight absorb another 20,000 people is ludicrous," one official says.

Mills' latest film, 20th Century Women, was inspired by his desire to understand his mother. As the host of Billy on the Street, Eichner asks strangers open-ended questions about the celebrities.

Donald Trump was officially sworn in Friday, January 20th, as the 45th President of the United States. As supporters and protesters converged for the...

Also: Some airlines say they've won an exemption from the U.S. laptop ban; Ukraine says it foils a second cyber attack; and an Italian farmer carves Putin's face into a field ahead of the G20 summit.

Phosphate is a crucial element, for farming, and for life. And there aren't too many places to get it. What if it runs out?

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to life in prison for his 2016 suicide attempt that resulted instead in him killing a 20-year-old college student. Mark Rafter, 50, had been driving at high speeds the wrong way down Interstate 480 when he struck and killed another driver, Kayla FCoates. Cleveland.com reports Coates' mother, Julie, told the court that Rafter should be made to view Kayla's photograph every anniversary of her daughter's death. An earlier report had misidentified Kayla Coates as Julie.

In addition to the two fatalities, the driver injured about 20 people in the western city of Muenster, police say, then killed himself.

Above, Columbus Museum of Art curator Dominique Vasseur chats with me about the paintings in the museum's Sirak Collection and what they have to do with…